HEATH Resource Center

Accommodations for College Students provides suggestions for parents whose kids are having difficulty getting colleges and universities to waive course requirements for students with disabilities.
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Policy for accommodations for ACT assessment.
Last modified: 2007-08-23 17:56:56 [new]

Keyboardian.com and IDEAL Group, Inc. created this table to make it easy for students and AT professionals to access lists of keyboard shortcuts to 234 commonly used applications.
Last modified: 2008-08-07 06:37:03 [new]

Higher Education's Obligations Under Section 504 and Title II of the ADA Examples of Auxiliary Aids.
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The Center for Personal Assistance Services provides research, training, dissemination and technical assistance on issues of personal assistance services (PAS) in the United States: * The relationship between formal and informal PAS and caregiving support, and the role of assistive technology (AT) in complementing PAS; * Policies and programs, barriers and new models for PAS in the home and community; * PAS Workforce development, recruitment, retention, and benefits; and * Workplace models of formal and informal PAS and AT at work.
Last modified: 2008-01-30 13:06:00 [new]

The College Board is committed to ensuring that students with disabilities receive appropriate accommodations on its tests.
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The DCMP works with educational media producers/distributors, captioning agencies, and description agencies by offering information concerning media accessibility issues. Some examples of these resources are captioning and description research, requirements of federal and state laws, history of description and captioning, learning benefits of accessible media, and guidelines for creating description and captioning.
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These materials are designed for staff involved in assisting students with needed accommodations. The materials describe the process of interviewing the student and determining the areas of functional needs and then matching those needs with accommodations.
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Over 100 books are produced in alternative formats and listed in the Alternate Media Exchange database. Alternative formats ranges from simple MP3's or text files to tagged PDF's and DAISY books.
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This website provides information to applicants with disabilities who seek ETS approval of reasonable testing accommodations. Please review all of the materials before submitting your request. Application forms may be obtained by linking to a specific testing program listed on the site. For information about AP®, GMAT®, and SAT® programs, refer to the "Related Links" in the left navigation bar.
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The George Washington University's Disability Support Services provides general information on the University's legal obligations to students with disabilities.
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JAN's mission is to facilitate the employment and retention of workers with disabilities by providing employers, employment providers, people with disabilities, their family members and other interested parties with information on job accommodations, self-employment and small business opportunities and related subjects. JAN's efforts are in support of the employment, including self-employment and small business ownership, of people with disabilities. JAN represents the most comprehensive resource for job accommodations available. JAN provides basic educational and training instructional strategies that facilitate learning among students with disabilities in classroom or training sessions.
Last modified: 2007-09-08 21:43:50 [new]

Database of keyboard applications.The site has been optimized for JAWS users.
Last modified: 2008-08-07 17:59:24 [new]

Tools and resources for Students, Instructors, and Parents to enable students with learning difficulties to be better learners.
Last modified: 2007-12-29 13:42:31 [new]

The Job Accommodation Network's Searchable Online Accommodation Resource (SOAR) system is designed to let users explore various accommodation options for people with disabilities in work and educational settings. These accommodation ideas are not all inclusive.
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American Chemical Society provides information about people with disabilities in chemistry labs (including informatiion on blind students and blind chemists).
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The site provides a fact sheet about ASL as a foreign language. The site also includes a list of about 150 colleges and universities that accept ASL as a foreign language. Some of these schools may also teach ASL as a foreign language. The list has maintained about 10 years and updates it frequently.
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Ten Things That Students and Faculty Need to Know about DSS lists students' and faculty's responsibility.
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From the hard copy book Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis; Jossey-Bass Publishers: San Francisco, 1993. Linking to this book chapter from other websites is permissible. However, the contents of this chapter may not be copied, printed, or distributed in hard copy form without permission.]
Last modified: 2007-08-23 18:00:37 [new]

The primary goal of this site is to identify colleges and universities which offer total and hassle-free wheelchair accessibility right now. These schools foster a culture of full inclusion by having already eliminated architectural barriers, and by actively recognizing the need for and participating in the ongoing process of arranging for personal care attendants to help with daily transferring, bathing, toileting and medical needs. Also, specialized services such as wheelchair repair are often available on campus. Usually, schools with outstanding wheelchair accessibility also excel in services and accommodations for other disabilities.
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